---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 2638.601"
title: "5"
number: "2638.601"
heading: "Authority and purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/2638.601"
---

# §2638.601. Authority and purpose.

- (a) **Authority.** The regulations of this part are issued pursuant to the authority of titles I and IV of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-521, as amended) (“the Act”).
- (b) **Purpose.** These executive branch regulations supplement and implement titles I, IV and V of the Act and set forth more specifically certain procedures provided in those titles, and furnish examples, where appropriate.
- (c) **Agency authority.** Subject only to the authority of the Office of Government Ethics as the supervising ethics office for the executive branch, all authority conferred on agencies in this subchapter B of [chapter XVI of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations](/cfr/5/chXVI.md) is sole and exclusive authority.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. App. 101-505; E.O. 12674, 54 FR 15159, 3 CFR, 1989 Comp., p. 215, as modified by E.O. 12731, 55 FR 42547, 3 CFR, 1990 Comp., p. 306.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 76273, Nov. 2, 2016, unless otherwise noted.